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hanging glacier

noun

  1. a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In 2021, the area experienced a deadly flood after a section of rock and hanging glacier fell down a steep slope.

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Experts say the massive flooding was caused by the collapse of both a section of rock and a “hanging glacier” — a huge chunk of ice — along a steep slope.

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By reviewing old satellite images, he learned that the hanging glacier responsible for Sunday’s landslide had developed a large crack in 2017.

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Possibly from the steep hanging glacier in the middle of the Google Earth image.

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He saw that an enormous hanging glacier, roughly 15 football fields long and five across, had broken from the steep face of a mountain and plummeted downward, bringing some of the rock face down with it.

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